UAPA University Students Learn About Pressing Problems Causing Climate Change

A screening of Lago Enriquillo: Prelude to Climate Change was held as part of GFDD/Funglode’s yearlong Environmental Film Screening Series, a sub-initiative of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival.

(Santo Domingo, October 19, 2015) Last Wednesday, October 14, students and staff of the University for Adults (Universidad Abierta Para Adultos –UAPA) participated in a screening of the documentary Lago
Enriquillo: Prelude to Climate Change, held at the National Aquarium. The event was part of the programming of the Year-round Environmental Film Screening Series run by GFDD/Funglode as a sub-initiative of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival.

The screening was part of a training workshop for upper-level students of Social Intervention
at the University, with the aims of fomenting discussion on the subject of aquatic species and habitats and raising awareness about climate change in the Dominican Republic.

Since its creation in 2011, the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival has provided the Dominican public with a platform for knowledge and debate on the challenges of environmental and sustainable development issues, while simultaneously celebrating the unique natural beauty and wealth of the
Caribbean nation.

Environmental Film Screening Series
The Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival maintains a Year-Round Environmental Film Screenings program, offering the opportunity to audiences around the country to enjoy the most interesting environmental films shown in previous editions of the Festival. This widens the scope of efforts to raise awareness and deepens the existing understanding of environmental issues among the
Dominican public. www.dominicanscreenings.org

More information:
www.globalfoundationdd.org
www.dreff.org